China News Agency, Kunming, November 23 (Lu Jicai and Hu Yuanhang) The First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University stated on the 23rd that the English version of "AIDS Skin and Mucosal Damage-Early Diagnosis Clues" edited by the hospital Li Yuye, Wang Kunhua and He Li Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HIV/AIDS—Early Diagnostic Clues" has been published worldwide by Springer, a world-renowned publishing group.

This book is the current international AIDS skin and mucosal damage cases, and is known as the "living dictionary" for early diagnosis of AIDS.

　　Li Yuye, one of the editor-in-chief of "AIDS Skin and Mucosal Damage-Early Diagnosis Clues" and director of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, introduced that skin and mucous membrane damage is often an external manifestation of visceral diseases, just as lupus erythematosus is characterized by immune disorders. Sexual skin lesions can be used as an important diagnostic basis. The immune disorder and immune deficiency caused by AIDS cause patients to have various skin rashes.

The team found that most AIDS patients often have skin and mucous membranes as the first and common manifestations. Skin and mucous membrane damage is almost accompanied by the entire course of the disease, so skin and mucous membrane damage can be used as an important clue for early diagnosis of AIDS.

　　The book "AIDS Skin and Mucosal Damage-Early Diagnosis Clues" is an important achievement in the early identification of AIDS diagnosis and treatment system through skin and mucosal damage created by Li Yuye's team for 20 years. It is divided into fungal, viral, bacterial, parasitic, Chapters on tumors, inflammatory diseases and skin changes caused by syphilis.

　　Unlike previous AIDS-related books, this book starts with cases and uses groups of cases to three-dimensionally show the different clinical characteristics of the same disease under different immune conditions. At the same time, it combines chapter overviews to summarize the commonality and characteristics of each type of disease, so that readers can fully grasp AIDS The characteristics and laws of related skin and mucous membrane damage.

In addition, the book also shows the characteristics of AIDS-related skin and mucosal damage in black people.

　　Li Yuye said that early detection of AIDS through skin and mucous membrane damage greatly shortens the time for AIDS diagnosis and opens up a new strategy for early diagnosis of AIDS, which is of great value to improving the ability of clinicians and disease control personnel to recognize AIDS.

In addition, skin manifestations have the characteristics of externality and intuitiveness, which are easy to be perceived and recognized by the general public, which can significantly increase the public's sensitivity to AIDS and shorten the time for early diagnosis of AIDS.

　　As an original book for the promotion and application of China's AIDS prevention and control achievements to the world, the English version of "AIDS Skin and Mucosal Damage-Early Diagnosis Clues" was published and distributed by Myron S. Cohen, an internationally renowned AIDS expert and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Highly rated. He said that the book contributes Chinese prescriptions to global AIDS prevention and treatment. (Finish)